Keep polishing that Carl Schmidt turd

As for Leo Straus - I TRY NOT TO INTERRUPT MY POLITICAL OPPONENT WHEN THEY MAKE A MISTAKE

Under the influence of the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Hegel, nationalist idealists asserted that a “world mind” (from the German Weltgeist) invisibly controlled the course of history, culminating in the emergence of nation-states (especially in Europe). In asserting this, they were only articulating an idea that comes naturally to hyperactive agency detectors like us.

Narrative historians, like other storytellers, will never want for an audience.

But absolute idealism went out of fashion in philosophy, and 20th-century international jurisprudence rejected “collective responsibility” just in time to try individual Nazis at Nuremberg. Still, the personification of the nation, the people, the race, the culture has persisted, thanks largely to demagogues.